afaik the current mesa drivers only support 3.2 but I cannot tell if that applies only to open-source drivers or to proprietary as well. When I was running Mint 14 mesa was important for proper functioning even with proprietary. I'm running arch now and have the proprietary but I don't know maybe there are some mesa dependancies. If someone else can clarify it would be awsum.

afaik the current mesa drivers only support 3.2 but I cannot tell if that applies only to open-source drivers or to proprietary as well. When I was running Mint 14 mesa was important for proper functioning even with proprietary. I'm running arch now and have the proprietary but I don't know maybe there are some mesa dependancies. If someone else can clarify it would be awsum.

I remember when i used Intel HD 4000 with mesa 9.1, graphics in this game was broken, all lights desappears and game was dark. So blob is better. At least nVidia blob.